Two weeks into the new fiscal year, California has already spent 1/3 of its firefighting budget for the year, and in the home of Proposition 13, the money is not there to cover this.

They are not talking about surcharges on insurance in fire zones and similar methods to cover current and expected shortfalls in the firefighting budgets.

I don’t know how any of this will make it through the state house, where you need a super majority, which requires Republican votes, and they have pretty much pledged to vote against all taxes, and their districts disproportionately benefit from the firefighting efforts.